Faith & Spirit Quote by Amber Tamblyn

Tamblyn’s line reads like a small scramble for footing in a culture where invoking God onstage can get you instantly sorted into a tribe. The hesitations and quick pivots are the tell: “I didn’t even see God… as being very spiritual” isn’t a denial of faith so much as a refusal of the expected framing. She’s trying to protect the work from the lazy category of “religious art,” which in American pop discourse can mean preachy, conservative, or aesthetically suspect.

The pronoun pileup - “him or her, it” - does quiet, modern work. It signals both inclusivity and uncertainty, a recognition that the word “God” arrives preloaded with gender, authority, and doctrine. By tripping over the language, she exposes how inadequate the default vocabulary is for what the show is actually doing. The point isn’t theology; it’s intimacy. God appears here less as a metaphysical claim than as a relational object, something the character holds onto the way people hold onto family, sobriety, luck, or a private ritual.

“Relevant and very important in her life” is also a strategic downgrade. Relevance is the currency of contemporary storytelling: it implies lived experience rather than sermonizing. Tamblyn’s intent is to reframe God as character detail, not cosmic endorsement - a way to keep the audience’s guard down and keep the focus on a woman’s interior life, where belief can be messy, functional, contradictory, and still nonnegotiable.